Traveling Words: Luggage, Baggage, and the Recombobulation Station

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  Coming up on Word Matters, we revisit combobulation with our luggage and luggage in hand.

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  I'm Emily Brewster and Word Matters is produced by Merriam-Webster in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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  On each episode, Merriam-Webster editors Amin Shea,

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  Peter Sokolowski and I explore some aspect of the English language from the dictionary's vantage point.

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  Listener Feedback sends us back to the re-combobulation station we first discussed in episode 86.

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  I'll lead the way.

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  Way back in episode 86, we discussed uncommon opposites, like the underused gruntled and chemt,

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  and I bemoaned at one point a lack of the word combobulation to contrast with discombobulation,

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  and Peter, you brought up the re-combobulation station that you have seen in airports.

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  A number of people wrote to us about re-combobulation and Listeners Kelly and Nick pointed us to Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport as the location of the Recombobulation Station.

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  And Peter, you are confident you've seen it in other places too?

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  I'm pretty sure I have, but I've certainly gone through there,

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  but I can't remember which of the airports I've seen it in.

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  You're usually kind of rushing to put your shoes back on or something.

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  Right.

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  As of January 2021,

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  the General Mitchell International Airport did claim to be the only airport with such an area designated as such,

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  but it is very possible that it will and has spread because it makes so much sense.

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  What do you do in a recombobulation area?

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  You re-combobulate yourself, right?

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